College students struggle to spot misinformation online as 2020 election approaches
Don't fall for the premise that young people, otherwise known as "digital natives," are immune to misinformation.
Don't fall for the premise that young people, otherwise known as "digital natives," are immune to misinformation.
Education
Oct 19, 2020
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In the workplace, women are now as good as men when it comes to computing performance, but there is still a gender gap when it comes to confidence, according to our new research.
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2020
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Even though they may seem benign ways to communicate emotions in text conversations, emoji reveal technology is shaped by cultural ideologies about race, according to research from the University of Alabama.
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2020
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Groundwater makes up 30 to 50 percent of California's water supply, but until recently there were few restrictions placed on its retrieval. Then in 2014 California became the last Western state to require regulation of its ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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If the measure of a currency's importance is how much it's used to actually buy and sell things, digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have barely gotten off the ground. And Facebook's proposed entry, Libra, has run ...
Economics & Business
Oct 28, 2019
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A new techno-economic analysis, by a team led by a researcher from WMG at the University of Warwick, shows that the energy intensive ceramic industry would gain both financial and environmental benefits if it moved to free ...
Materials Science
Oct 21, 2019
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Tech giants and billionaires hope a new, cheaper crop of internet-beaming satellites and balloons can get internet to those who don't have it.
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2019
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New Curtin University-led research has found bosses need to adjust their "leadership style" when dealing with a crisis to ensure their employees feel challenged, motivated and valued in the workplace.
Economics & Business
Sep 11, 2019
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Can you save the rainforest from your desk? A spike in downloads for a search engine that's contributing profits to planting trees shows people are looking for ways to help as fires rage across the Brazilian Amazon.
Environment
Aug 28, 2019
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Often when I speak with students who are majoring in computer sciences, many of them tell me that they have never taken a computer science course until college. This is especially true for the female, black, and Latino students ...
Education
Aug 6, 2019
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